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Okie to monster taiming is pretty much having a pet. To tame a pet you need to get somtihing called a taming item. Maybe you can find one at Alberta at the southwest of your map. For example: Rainbow carrot is for a lunitic, Unripe apple is for porings, and bitter herbs is for poporings etc. To tell what taming item for what monster just click on it until you see the (to be continued srry peps)